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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Without faith a man can do nothing with it all things are possible.
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Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.
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Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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He who knows syphilis knows medicine
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
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Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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